Tag: writing
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Episode 22: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
View on Zencastr Joe and Mark join Matt Watts, writer, comedian and actor to discuss the classic radio series, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTG). That’s right, before it was a book or a movie, the Douglas Adams classic was a radio series on the BBC. They get into the nature of writing. What…
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Episode 18: Maps & Music
View on Zencastr This episode is a Re-Creative first, as Joe and Mark host two guests on the same show. Celu Amberstone and Paula Johanson are both writers and educators with a love of the natural world. They also both live in British Columbia. Paula’s inspiration is the map, particularly a map of Salt Spring…
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Episode 16: Tunnel Vision
View on Zencastr When author and jazz singer Krista Wallace saw Tunnel Vision, a painting by Burnaby artist Jane Appleby [see below], she knew she had to buy it. “I walked around the corner, and I saw it, and I was just locked on,” Wallace says. She was in the process of writing her first…
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Episode 14: The Overstory
View on Zencastr The Overstory is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel that had quite a meaningful and moving impact on this week’s guest: the writer, naturalist and limnologist, Nina Munteanu. Nina considers herself an environmental activist and ecologist, and much of her fiction is written in a sub-genre of SF: eco-fiction. She’s also a lover…
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Episode 12: Children’s Games
View on Zencastr Mark and Joe revisit childhood with Canadian author Arlene F. Marks, as they discuss the painting Children’s Games, by Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Arlene explains why the painting is so important to her as a writer. Like the painting, which shows 230 children playing 83 different games of the…